Knuckledragger

Over the weekend one of the two cooling fans in my Macbook became REALLY LOUD. It's going in for service on Thursday (soonest appointment I could get.) I'll be without it for the better part of a week. That means no show next week. Hopefully there will be one the week after. Also, I need a Mac Mini. >.>

Vikki Dougan. Pregrada, Croatia. Click for slightly larger.

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I am now minorly* internet famous because of this video. It made it to the front page of reddit, and FOTM TF2 YouTube personality Muselk linked to it in his most recent video. I ...really need to turn off email notifications for YouTube comments on my channel. *"minorly" is not actually a word, but "majorly" is. Because English.

Andre De Dienes - Marilyn Monroe lying naked on a trampoline, 1953. A woman demonstrating an ingenious Prohibition-era fashion accessory, the cane-flask. Washington, D.C - Feb 13, 1922. Pumpkin grown in a mold. Reine, Norway.

Pen made of recycled water bottles casts a shadow of a water bottle. This is supposed to be Lady Gaga? Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. Klyuchevskaya Sopka, Russia. Corinth, Greece. I hear they have good leather.

Record turntables in production, May 1930. Victoria Falls at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe. Downtown Unstad, Norway.

Interior of BBC Broadcasting House in 1932. *fap* *fap* *fap* Luftwaffe aces meet Hitler after an awards ceremony at the Berghof, April 4, 1944. Hobbit's Castle, Sintra, Portugal by James Mills. Click for slightly larger.

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I've been staring, bleary-eyed at the 40 minute version The Orb's "Blue Room" for an hour now, trying to figure out if I can edit it down to something I can use on my radio show. Conclusion: No. Alex Patterson is laughing at my meager attempts at DJing. I've moved on to the 11, 15 and 17 minute versions. That said, this is the waveform to the 1992, 40 minute "single" version: Alex Patterson believes in dynamic range.

Claar Pronk - Girl at Record Player, 1970. There's two more frames, Dusty. Homs, Syria. Click for slightly larger.

John Reeder and daughter Terri - KBOA Radio. Grand Canyon, North Rim. Click for slightly larger. and I do mean "slightly"

I hate gingers.

Jesse Cox as Littlefinger. Louis Armstrong, Hotel Room, Seattle, 1954. Click for slightly larger.

Mixlr is being a **** and giving me an error message about publishing the showreel. I uploaded the whole thing. Hopefully, the site will un-fuck itself soon.

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Reddit went full retard yesterday. Full. Retard. The reddit admins banned the subreddit "Fat People Hate," which was dedicated to ...exactly what it sounds like. The amount of sewage that has spewed as a result is the stuff off legend. There's a decent recap on the Out of the Loop subreddit, and a lot more detail at Subreddit Drama. Other than further reinforcing my Gen X cynicism and possibly lowering my already dim view of the average redditard, I haven't paid much attention to the whole kerfuffle. What spare time I had yesterday was dedicated to setting up a Workshop Map Server TF2 server with the Mic Snobs (my TF2 group) technical admin. Also, the Steam Summer Sale started today. All of this said, the reasonably famous YouTuber boogie2988 posted a video last night on the subject: As per usual, Boogie make some salient points while being reasonably amusing. I don't subscribe to his channel (there are not enough hours in the day to watch the channels I already subscribe to) but I always find him to be a stand up guy. He gets more shit thrown at him on a daily basis than I can imagine. When I watched the video, this was the top comment: It had something like 1800 "thumbs up" next to it. "SJW" is a pejorative that means "social justice warrior." I'm ...not sure I can translate the rest of that comment.

Swiss Mountain Peak. Click for slightly larger.

$14 Bloody mary. The Milky Way seen over A.L.M.A., Chile. It's a sand dune.

9,000 fallen soldiers etched into the sand on Normandy beach to commemorate peace day. Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala by Andrew Shepard.

Waterpark in an old German airship hangar. Inside a sinkhole, Xuanen county, China’s Hubei province.

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Vancouver, British Columbia. Click for slightly larger.